Executive Committee Minutes 08/13/09

LAUC-B Executive Committee turnover meeting
Thursday, August 13, 2009
10 am - 12 noon
303 Doe Library
Present: Armanda Barone, Judy Bolstad, Susan Koskinen, Corliss Lee, Jennifer Nelson,
Lisa Ngo, Margaret Phillips, Sandy Tao, I-Wei Wang
I. Introductions of outgoing and incoming members II. Announcements
-Next Gen Tech Services team will be visiting campuses. Armanda and Emily
Stambaugh (CDL) will be holding an early-bird for staff at the Berkeley campus on
September 1st to talk about the teams projects.
II. Overview of a Year of LAUC-B Business
- Peer review
- Professional development events 2-3 per year, one of which is a peer review
workshop
- Townsend Fellow
- LAUC Statewide research grants
- Mentoring program for new librarians
- Administer professional development money
- Representation on LAUC statewide committees
- Vice-chair is a guest at Academic Senate Committee meetings
- Chair and Vice-Chair meet monthly with the University Librarian
- Monthly conference calls between statewide and campus chairs
- Produce four assemblies a year Two Affiliated assemblies and two general
assemblies
- Produce a conference every two years and the Distinguished Librarian Award
every two years (in alternating years)
- Chair, Vice-Chair, and Past-Chair meet once a month
- Library representatives oversee Librarian interview lunches and the New
Librarian Mentor Program
- LAUC-B Wiki
o Contains information for Chairs, committees, and other members;
documents processes and duties
o Wiki will be integrated into the new LAUC-B website
o Each committee has a page on the wiki
o Corliss will send out URL and password to Ex-Comm
III. 2008-2009 in Review A. Year in Review
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Professional Development Committee organized several good Brown Bags: Two
peer review workshops, one in the Fall and one in the Spring, Web 2.0 Tools,
and one well-attended workshop on Professional Development Funding. They
also revised and clarified the Professional Development web page.
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LAUC-B pushed to expand what professional development funding could be used
for, resulting in LBS creating a pilot project for the 2009-2010 year allowing
LAUC-B funds to be made available for association memberships
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Townsend Fellow Brown Bag Jim Spohrer is Townsend Fellow starting Fall
2009. Librarians need more support for research and funding; another Brown
Bag is suggested for Spring to help prepare librarians for Fall applications.
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Nominations and Elections Committee experimented with electronic voting.
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Diversity Committee is working on Staff Mentoring program. Will present to Ex-
Comm in September.
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Conference Committee is making progress in planning for Fall conference.
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Affiliated Librarians held two assembles this year; speakers were Ken Haycock
from San Jose State University Library School and Laine Farley.
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Ex-Comm held a new librarians reception in Spring 09.
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LAUC-B website is being reorganized and moving to Drupal. All pages will be
assigned to a Ex Comm and committee chairs for updating.
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Two successful assemblies: Fall Assembly guest was Prof. J. Burrell of I-School,
Spring Assembly guest was EVCP G. Breslaeur.
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LAUC-B blog: members are encouraged to post information on presentations
attended and new librarians are encouraged to introduce themselves.
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Ex Comm surveyed members about their opinions on using technology as an
alternative to travel. Lisa Ngo and David Eifler created a spreadsheet listing
some alternatives to travel that will be posted on website.
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LAUC Statewide turnover meeting will be at UC Berkeley on Monday, August 17.
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LAUC Statewide Assembly will be at UC Berkeley on December 3.
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Issues that will continue into the 2009-2010 year include online elections,
alternatives to conferences/online conferencing, the LAUC-B web site,
Mentoring Task Force, professional development funding, and the use of
volunteers in the library.
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Career Compass (see C. below)
B. Professional Development Funding
- The LAUC-B budget process was explained and there was some discussion about
Professional Development funding for 2009-2010.
Decision/further discussion was postponed until all of the new Executive
Committee members can be present.
C. Career Compass
- Job standards in question: Library Professional 4. Concerns that job
responsibilities overlap with Librarian responsibilities.
- Current Ex-Comm will follow up with HR about other concerns, then incoming
Ex-Comm will take over. Concerns remain about Library Supervisor 2, and
Library Manager 2,3 positions.
- Incoming Ex-Comm Chair and Vice-Chair agree to let current Chair and Ex-
Comm follow up and put concerns on record.
- bSpace site will remain for others to use.
IV. 2009-2010 Preview (Margaret Phillips)
- Housekeeping
o
Margaret will send out a message to confirm with the incoming Executive
Committee that meetings held on the second Thursday of each month.
(Lisa: has MP confirmed this?) do not conflict with anyones schedule.
o
Reflector will have new members added by September 1.
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Goals & Objectives
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Online elections
o
Cal-cierge: new position created by campus to help new faculty members;
campus is amenable to allow Cal-cierge to help new librarians also. Ex-
Comm will make contact with the position.
o
Continue working on Professional Development allocations
o
Continue working on website
o
Possibly assemble a task force to look how to add an online element to the
LAUC-B Conference
o
Charge a committee to start planning for 2011 LAUC-B Conference
o
Charge a committee (that, hopefully, includes a member of Ex-Comm) to
plan local arrangements for the Statewide Fall Assembly on December 3
o
There is a pilot to pay for LAUC members membership fees out of Prof.
Development Funds; out goal is to move this out of the pilot phase and
into regular operation
o
Charge a committee for the 2010 Distinguished Librarian Award
o
Invite Diversity Committee to give an update on their programs and
charges
o
Members are encouraged to send Margaret names of potential speakers for
the Fall and Spring Assemblies.